France has detected four cases of COVID-19 resulting from the contagious coronavirus variant first detected in Brazil, Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Thursday.
Veran said France was in a "race against time" against the mutations first identified in Britain, South Africa and Brazil.
The variants now account for 14% of all new cases in France, the government says.
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Richard Lough and Chris Reese)
